All the best Euro NCAP! You may be wondering why there is so much excitement over the fact that the car safety testing organization Euro NCAP is celebrating 20 years. It is to a large extent responsible for the fact that our cars are so safe today, as it drives car brands to try to do even more in the field of safety. Euro NCAP is a kind of our guardian angel on the roads and, as it boasts, it has saved more than 78 thousand lives since 1997. Are you interested in car safety 20 years ago and today? Then be sure to watch the video comparing the crash safety of a car of the latest date and a car from the late 1990s.
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The new BMW 5 Series Touring (2017) is coming, a revamped wagon in the 5 Series sedan, which the Germans will introduce to the public at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and will hit the roads in the summer of 2017, initially with four different engines. The new generation is characterized by versatility, greater usability and dynamism.
This is the new Seat Ibiza! The Spanish Seat (which is under the patronage of Volkswagen) proudly unveiled it in Barcelona's La Cupula, and the general public will be able to admire it for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March. The fifth generation Ibiza has an extremely spacious interior (more legroom and headroom), is equipped with an adaptive chassis and offers four driving modes.
The red thread of Alfa Romeo is aesthetics, and this story is also told by the Alfa Romeo C18 concept, which was born from the fingers of the Italian designer Antonio Paglia.
A Lego Chevrolet is nothing new, a life-size Lego Chevrolet is. The American car brand brought a batmobile made of more than 300 thousand Lego bricks to the NAIAS 2017 auto show!
The results of the first tests of the Euro NCAP organization in 2017 are known. At the beginning of the year, two Volvos were tested, which proved themselves extremely well. The Volvo S90 and Volvo V90 were named among the safest cars in the history of Euro NCAP tests.
The Tesla Model S 100D is now betting on what really counts. Reach. While we've been hearing about its incredible acceleration for the last few months - these are enviable, but ordinary mortals can't help much with acceleration under three seconds - Tesla Motors has added a version to the 'collection' with a new 100 kWh battery that allows more than a 500-kilometer range and can boast the longest autonomy of an electric car. This is something that has a much greater added value for the customer than light acceleration.
Mitsubishi is preparing the Eclipse crossover. This comes from the XR-PHEV II study, which predicts bold design lines. The Japanese will present it at the Geneva Motor Show.
If you thought that the cars with the best acceleration are still Ferraris, Porsches and Lamborghinis, you are honestly wrong. In the game of tenths, newcomers to the market, such as Tesla, Croatian Rimac, Faraday Future, etc., overtake them on the right. Now the Dendrobium hypercar from the Singaporean company Vanda Electrics is joining the hunt for tenths, heralding an electric beast like no other road has ever seen.
A frozen or snowy car can cause quite a few headaches. Frozen windows, frozen lock, frozen door. Cold, snow and ice are an inconvenience for the car, but sometimes they make sure that they create the right works of art on it. Yes, some cars can be real artistic souls.
Flying cars have always stirred the human imagination, and already in 2017, our wildest dreams can turn into reality. At least that's what the European aviation giant Airbus predicts, which plans to build a prototype of an autonomous flying car later this year.
Opel Crossland X is the next crossover that buried the minivan. His 'victim' is the Opel Meriva. The family-oriented small crossover will be dimensionally comparable to the Opel Mokka. It will be joined by the Grandland X later this year. In addition to the aforementioned pair, Opel will introduce three new SUV models by 2020.